Doctor, troopers testify at hearing for parents charged in their toddler's death

UNIONTOWN, Pa. — Parents charged with homicide in the death of their nearly 2-year-old daughter were in court Tuesday for their preliminary hearing.

The emergency room doctor who tended to Andrea Dusha and Michael Wright’s daughter, Lydia Wright, testified in court about the day the girl was rushed to Uniontown Hospital by Dusha.%

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He said Lydia was pale, rigid and unresponsive, with no heartbeat and no pulse. He said he believed Lydia, who weighed 10 pounds the day she died in February, had been dead for hours and that the medical staff was unable to resuscitate her.

A trooper also testified about interviewing Dusha in the hospital the day she brought in her daughter, saying Dusha told him that she strapped Lydia in an infant car seat between 8 and 9 p.m. and didn't check on her until 10 a.m.

He said Dusha told him Lydia began to drink a mixture of mix of Pedialite and Gatorade when her eyes rolled back in her head, her mouth clamped down and she began to have a seizure.

The trooper testified that when asked why she didn't call 911 or wake up Wright, Dusha said, "What was I going to do? Carry her body upstairs?”

A second trooper testified that he interviewed Wright, who told the trooper that he woke at 11 a.m. the day Lydia died.

When the trooper asked why he never checked on his daughter for 13 hours, Wright said, “I guess I'm just lazy.”

Wright explained to the trooper that he, Andrea and their two boys slept in one room, and Lydia slept alone in a different room because, “She's sick and needed to be away from everybody".

When asked when she had last seen a doctor, Wright replied, “Either two months or one year ago.”

The judge held all charges against the parents for court.

Neither Wright nor Dusha said a word outside court following their preliminary hearing.

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